champion professor

Chapter 183 The Ambition of the New Millennium

Strictly speaking, this is the first season since the beginning of the new century, and it is of great significance to every club.

Shao Bo has also coached Arsenal for four years. After spending this season, he has completed a "five-year plan".

Although David Dane feels that the team's current achievements are enough to go to East Asia to pan for gold and play a few commercial games.

But he was rejected by Shao Bo. After all, this is a major competition year, which already reduces the rest and training time for players. If they go to the Far East to play commercial games, it may affect the preparation for the new season even more.

After careful discussion, David Dane finally accepted Shao Bo's suggestion and chose the location of the commercial competition in several countries that are closer to Western Europe.

Because the football here has already developed and matured, Arsenal can't make much money from commercial games.

However, without the hardships of long-distance travel, at least they can guarantee that they can prepare steadily and will not affect the new season.After all, compared with those entry fees, results are more important.

It's not that Shao Bo can't understand the importance of business competitions. It's not just about winning some money and selling some peripheral products.

More importantly, it can also promote the club's brand, increase its influence, and increase its commercial potential.

If the team's brand is done well, there will naturally be a large number of sponsors flocking to it.

Although Shao Bo himself is only a coach and is not in charge of the commercial part of the team, he also knows that Coca-Cola and Pepsi are constantly raising their prices in order to become Arsenal's sponsors.

For someone like Shao Bo who likes both flavors, it is a painful choice.

Because after these two beverage giants successfully win the cooperation agreement with Arsenal, Shao Bo has to pay attention to what he wants to drink in front of the public-most of the sponsorship contracts are exclusive, and if you choose one, you cannot use another one. Same.

Sponsors such as drinks, in addition to providing a lot of funds to the team, will basically provide the company's exclusive sports drinks.Therefore, you can't just look at the brand or Coke-this kind of thing that athletes are usually not allowed to drink.

Pepsi is sweeter and more in line with Asian palates.Coca-Cola has a longer history and offers higher sponsorship fees.

Sponsors such as drinks, in addition to providing a lot of funds to the team, will basically provide the company's exclusive sports drinks.Therefore, you can't just look at the brand or Coke-this kind of thing that athletes are usually not allowed to drink.

If you don't want to drink Coke, then drink orange juice!

Since the club is not his own now, Shao Bo doesn't worry about which brand David Dane will choose as the team's beverage sponsor.

Because of the impact of the European Cup, individual players will take a longer break and return later.But this season, Shao Bo's transformation of the team is not too big, and it's okay to be short of one or two players temporarily.

Just after all the newcomers and seniors came to Kearney's training base, Shao Bo once again stated the goals and discipline of the team.

These are things that have to be said every year, but old players also need to listen to them again!
Shao Bo pretended to be serious and amused Emma, ​​who was watching their training, and the little girl's crisp laughter made Shao Bo a little bit uneasy.

In the end, he laughed as did the players.

"Here, we laugh and laugh, and it doesn't matter if we joke around. But on the court and training ground, we can't make a slight discount! Don't forget that our goal is the championship! And the rules of the locker room must also be followed. !"

"This is the first full season since the millennium, isn't it? It's a new millennium, a new century! The Premier League has only had eight seasons since its inception. Before the new century, we had three. Champion of the league, reached the final of the Champions League, and almost achieved three consecutive championships!"

Pause, Shao Bo let the new players digest such a message.

"What are we going to do in the new century? Don't we want to win more league titles, win the Champions League, and get all the titles we can get, damn it!"

"When I first came here, I didn't have any coaching experience. However, we won the league title and UEFA Cup title in our first season. What? In the new century, you don't have any ideas? If you win the league title once, how can you tell people that you have played for Arsenal after you retire?"

"This is what I think. Football has been developed for a hundred years, and this is a new century. How can we not take advantage of the new century and win more championships!"

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Overmars left Arsenal, but Pires also took advantage of the situation to fill his position.

Although in Shao Bo's mind, the current Pires is not as good as Overmars, and the speed is not much worse, but in terms of experience or technology, Pires still needs to be honed.

However, Shao Bo has always believed that "there is no perfect individual, only a perfect team".As long as the technical and tactical arrangements are good, Pires can also play the strength of Overmars in Arsenal, or even higher!

Yes, Pires achieved the feat of winning the championship undefeated in the most glorious period of Arsenal.

The 49 unbeaten games made Arsenal the first team to complete the unbeaten championship since the new century. Shao Bo is still calculating in his mind, can he try to surpass this number of games?
The first season of the new millennium, why not give it a try?

Winning the title undefeated, repeating that feat while surpassing the 49-game undefeated streak...it's mind-blowing to think about.

Because of this, after the start of the new season, even when they lost their first possible championship, the Charity Shield, Shao Bo was not too frustrated.

Although this was the first championship they could win, Shao Boxin didn't care too much about this mediocre champion in terms of being undefeated in the league.

After losing to Liverpool on penalties, it was Shao Bo who comforted the players in the locker room.

After a loss is also the starting point for a good start. In the first month of the new season, they managed to get four wins and one tie, leading the standings.

Come September, there is always a draw for the Champions League.

Now Arsenal can be regarded as a frequent visitor to the Champions League. When he came to the venue of the draw ceremony, Shao Bo looked around, and most of them were acquaintances.

After chatting with a few acquaintances for a while, the lottery ceremony is about to begin.

Last season's Champions League champion was Real Madrid, who competed with Arsenal in the second stage of the group stage. La Liga can also be regarded as the big winner of the last Champions League.

Occupying three seats in the top eight, this is a situation that has never been seen in the Champions League.

Although Arsenal and Manchester United completed the first "Champions League Civil War" in the 98-99 season, it is surprising enough that Real Madrid and Valencia replicated this achievement again.

As the champions of last season, Real Madrid naturally got a ticket to the Champions League.

The team that replaced last season's runner-up Valencia and successfully won the Champions League ticket is the dark horse Coruña.

Valencia have been overstretched in the Champions League and Barcelona have been at a low ebb in the league.Valencia, who underestimated Barcelona, ​​lost the game in the final round. As a result, they gave up the Champions League tickets and could only play in the UEFA Cup.

Also the runner-up of the Champions League, Arsenal at least guaranteed a stable appearance in the Champions League.It's not a big deal now, but after ten years, everyone will be surprised by this achievement.

As the champion of last season, Real Madrid should be taken care of by UEFA, and his group opponents are not strong.Whether it is Sparta Moscow or Leverkusen, they can only compete for the second place to qualify.

Arsenal, on the other hand, met their opponent from Ukraine again after Dynamo Kip - Shakhtar Donetsk.

Ukraine's football level is not too strong, but they can have at least one team to participate in the main match of the Champions Cup every year, which is very rare.

Of course, more effort is needed to qualify.

This is not the era when there are only 24 teams in the entire Champions League. The strong teams in the four major leagues have played one after another, and the rankings will be relatively more inclined to these football powers.

After Shakhtar Donetsk, there is another Eastern European team, that is Sparta Prague, and they won the domestic league championship in their country for four consecutive years, which is also a record.

Frequently coming to such a far place to play football, long-distance travel will consume a lot of energy of the players needlessly.

To be honest, he would rather let the team play against the strong teams in the nearby major leagues than fly so far away.

As for the most powerful opponent in this group, it is naturally Lazio who purchased many players in the summer.

Speaking of which, they bought players on a large scale, and if they failed to achieve any desired results, it would be a waste of money to spend.

Shao Bo has been waiting viciously for them to acquire Mendieta, to see if history will continue like this.

However, the Blue Eagles still have some strength, and the transfer investment of nearly [-] million is not a waste of time.

Before Figo, Crespo, who set a player transfer record, and Nesta, an excellent central defender trained locally... these are not players he can ignore.

As Italy's rare double champions, they, like Arsenal, are the favorites to qualify for this group.

As for the other two teams, they can only be used to test the final rankings of the two sides.

It's hard to guess who will be the number one in the group.

As for the remaining two English teams, whether it is Manchester United or Leeds United, the draws are also good, and the death group did not take care of the English teams.

However, in the group Juventus, Hamburg and Deportivo, although everyone is optimistic about the first two veteran teams.

But only Shao Bo knows how crazy this year's Deportivo is.Between Juventus and Hamburg, there must be a team that will be out early!

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